Compact Shelters has developed portable shelters for the homeless.
Alastair Pryor, a student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, has launched Compact Shelters. The startup aims to provide the homeless with portable shelters that can be folded up within minutes.
The individual shelters, which can also be used for aid relief, during natural disasters or even camping, can be joined together to larger dwellings. The company has gained interest from distributors in the US and Singapore to license the product, but it insists its purpose is not to…